An Assessment of the Impact of Local Government Fragmentation in Ghana

Abdulai Mohammed ()

Public Organization Review, 2016, vol. 16, issue 1, 117-138

Abstract: In theory fragmentation: yields lower per capita service cost; decentralizes service delivery; promotes local democracy; and protects identity and community of interest. This article assessed whether prediction matched the Ghanaian fragmentation evidence. The paper’s findings are: poverty reduction is a more important performance indicator than the overemphasis on efficiency in public provision; procedures and opportunities for participation are inadequate and irregular; attention is on public expenditure assignments without due consideration for significant financial devolution; and the consequences of the politics of fragmentation have been ignored. The paper concludes that unless these minutiae are incorporated into fragmentation policy, achieving predicted outcomes will remain difficult. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016

Keywords: Ghana; Local government; Fragmentation; Efficiency; Local democracy; Politics of fragmentation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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